Hi all. Does anyone know of someplace I can get a curtain pole that's actually made of oak, rather than a pine pole that's just stained an oak colour? The only place I know of is Habitat, but their poles are very contemporary, and also only 28mm in diameter whereas I'd like a traditional, 35mm pole.
If only I had thought about this before my parents had an oak tree felled and chopped up!
Any furniture maker should be able to do that - doubt you'll find one off the shelf without paying Notting Hill prices though. It's saw and hand work to round it, with a rounding plane, rather than lathe turning. Any turner can knock up the end finials and the supports though.
Price also depends a bit on how long you want it, and whether you mind a central support. I certainly don't keep 2" oak boards on hand in the full length for the longest of curtain poles, and sawing it down from timber-framing sizes (6 inch squares and upwards) would be a bit wasteful. 6' in a span is easy, longer than that might want a bit of carpentry to join two lengths.
Personally I'd do it in ash, because it's stronger and the figure is identical to oak from any more than a few feet away. Staining is fine if it's just to change colour, but you need to have underlying figure that's from the same sort of tree.
do a lot of woden curtain poles. They are cheaper than even the discount curtain warehouse type places and even do poles up to 4m which I had been unable to find in the shops.
Could they legaly sell pine as: "High quality Light Oak wood pole" ?
This one doesnt look like pine, but not sure it looks exactly like Oak either:
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at these:
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?ID=2829They are supposed to be different wood but they have the same "worm holes" etc. They are clearly the same picture (of a pine pole) tinted differently.
Their crap pictures are doing them no favours. I've emailed them.
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